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The Purpose of Corporatist Christianity, Judaism, and/or Corporatism, aka AntiChrist in general, is to REFLECT the TRUE BODY of Christ!
Posted : 23 Nov, 2011 10:36 AM
THE PURPOSE OF ANTICHRIST!
The story of Jean Cauvin, aka John Calvin, should be construed as "the same old story" of how multitudes of men have argued, fought, and killed to have men, or rather to COMPEL MEN to believe, as he did, they have, or shall.
In this sense Cauvin was not different than any of the other men which has led to the creation of the fictional 32,000 denominations of Christianity.
This is also the same reason why so many on here argue with me. They feel threatened. They are comfortable in their religion, no matter how warped it obviously is, and they love the government(s) of men, because they know no other way. Oh, to hear them tell it, and you will see their posted replies, thinking to rebuke me, when in reality their words are meaningless. They whine, not because of what I or any man of God may write, but because they do not trust God.. thay have to have it their way..
The foundation of the world's religions are all the same; they are built on philosophy, which is man's interpretation of Who God is. This is why there is such arguement, even to the point of them boiling over, as was the case with Jean Cauvin and Michael Servetus, which resulted in Jean Cauvin bringing accusation, based upon his own philosophical views.
Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, and all the remainder of "ISMS" can be construed to be formed under one ism, and that is CORPORATISM, or "the image of the Beast" of Revelation.
The word of God tells us, that the love of money is the root of ALL evil. This was the problem that led to the Babylonians, which emerged from Babylon and clashed with Jesus, aka "the Jews", to form their "Congress", with their "Senate" and "House of Representatives". It was their promulgation of perceived knowledge, and their use of it to enslave men, which caused the Son of God to be born at that time, and to CLASH HARD with Satan's form of government. Our government is likewise very deceptive, because our Congress, is the "Sanhedrin", our "Senate" is the "Pharisees", and our "House of Representatives" is the "Sadducees".
This TWO party form of government, this arguing over what is perceived as 'right and wrong', or "the left and the right", originated in ancient Mesopotamia at Sumer, and this is the reason why this Babylonian entity known as "the Jews", have since the killing of Christ, the silencing of Christ, spread out all over the world, in search of other men who are unknowing of the mental diseases that lead to malformed societies.
Are we really expected to believe that the failures of past civilizations can work now, here today in the United States of America?
Yes! If you listen to fools, and disregard the greatest wisdom the World has ever known, which is the Word of God.
Greece's failed philosophical system did not benefit the Greeks beyond that foreordained moment in time, and yet we see in these United States the flawed Demokratia of ancient Greece being brought in under the guise that it will avail this people, "if only it is paired with the 'Republicans' of ancient Rome,", which was merely another failed socioeconomic religio-philosophical system of governance.
My, how twisted the game is!
The Word of God, was not written about Judaism or for Judaism, nor was it written about Christianity or for Christianity. It was written in response to the doctrines [form of teaching and instruction] of AntiChrist. of which both Christianity and Judaism are fragments.
AntiChrist does not mean "against Christ", as we are led to believe through philosophical argument, it is the very arguement of philosophy itself, which is AntiChrist.
This is how the World has been warped from the beginning!
Yes, Christianity is AntiChrist, as is Judaism, as is Islam, and every other ISM, every other religion, which relies upon philosophical argument, which is the wisdom of Satan, to guide it.
So, we have come to TWO points in the Road of Life: SATAN AVENUE, and GOD HIGHWAY.
Satan's Avenues are always short, fragmented, and filled with the perspective of man's being able to figure time out, and when he cannot, he lies - to change time in other men's perspectives, he steals - that which God has provisioned for someone else, and he kills - because he cannot control.
God's Highway, on the other hand, SPANS ALL THROUGHOUT TIME........... He is in Complete Control of ALL things, whether it makes sense to man or not. This is the basis of Faith. Faith trusts that the Lord is SOVEREIGN, pretend faith tries to help.
Satan's wisdom is the perspective of trying to alter time through dialectical manipulations; you know the old "THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS" or "PROBLEM, REACTION, SOLUTION" game.. It is as Old as Time.
This is why these 32,000 denominations of Christianity exist, and more are being added to the role everyday.
John Calvin was a hypocrite, not because I say, but because the Word of God demonstrates that he was.
Cauvin was into the Love of Money game, as are most ministers today, and so he wrote his Institutes of the Christian Religion with the thought of trying to "make a living", and took to selling it. It is in this action that we see the purpose for Cauvin's Institutes manifested. And it is this action, that we see the Father spreading His word, even by heretical means.
The Word of God is PURE. It is as oil floating to the surface of water. It has the inate ability to separate itself from the remainder, which is nothing but philosophy.
All philosophy can be construed as "man's wranglings and perceptions," which is but an identical similitude of Satan's poisonous argement in the Garden, when he tricked Adam and Eve into believing that he had something better, if only they'd listen.
Thus Satan employed the use of a perceived problem, that God was hiding something from them, and that he would show it to them, if they'd only listen.
This is why Christianity has its over 32,000 denominations in it, as each subsequent generation strikes out on its own, seeking to invent new fortunes. And so we see men, warping the etymological meanings of the words of previous civilizations, and even numbers are changed as well.
Today, the battle rages over the differences in currencies, and philosophical differences, as it did in earlier generations. It is the art of manipulating this knowledge that is known as "the love of money".
Sumer led to the development of Assyria and Babylon, and from there to the different cultures and civilizations which have appeared throughout the world.
What we have here in the struggles of earth, of men, is that of corporations all battling each other.
One minister will write a book alleging that he is wiser than the previous, because of some imputed perspective into the minds of the ignorant. This is why Joel Osteen has focused on the apparent niche of "encouraging men". Joel Osteen, like his father John Osteen - whom I heard preach - is nothing but a philosopher. He uses the ignorance of what philosophy is, to write books, and has made millions.
What was WWII about? Do you know? It was about Babylonian high finance, and a man named Adolph Hitler, who was a vessel of God, used to slow Satan's efforts to bring his world government, to a head.
Satan has controlled men through the notions of "money" or perceived advantage since the Garden. In the Great Epic Battle between God and Satan, good and evil, Satan has tried to be God himself, and this is what the whole of religions, and the knowledge of life is all about.
Babel was an attempt on Satan's part to bring about his government, but the Father broke that up, and sent the men confused - hence the name of Babel - throughout the earth.
This is the purpose for the visions of Daniel. Governments of Satan would arise and God would knock them down. Taking the game a little further, always to place men and time where He had afore planned.
Some men are born to be destroyed. These men are known by the designation of, "vessels of wrath fitted to destruction". Some men are born to be vessels of mercy, "prepared afore unto glory", as it is stated in the word of God.
The USA came into existence to play a role in the final minutes of time.
The Babylonians, masquerading as "the Jews", moved all about the earth, as part of the Father's eternal plan, and they landed in New Amsterdam, today New York City, in 1654. They brought with them the sorcery of Babylon, in their Babylonian Talmud. The Talmud is an artifice of deception created at Babylon as the traditions of the elders. It was at Babylon that the Rabbi was created. There was no rabbi until the Babylonian captivity of the Southern Kingdom, which was made up of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin; and when they emerged from Babylon, they took to calling themselves "Jews".
Although it is impossible for any tribe of Israel to be called a "Yĕhuwdiy", other than the tribe of Judah, this gang of world class criminals, in accordance with the Father's eternal plan, took the mysteries of Babylon in tow, and invaded other nations.
Some monarchs hated them, especially when they saw the masters of Babylonian high finance, employing their trade, and enslaving other men thereby. It was during this period that the Jews were compelled into "ghettos". They were not trusted to be around other men. Give them one minute with someone who did not comprehend Babylonian finances, and they'd have that man locked up in a Babylonian styled contract, replete with all of Babylon's oaths, and that man owing a portion of his life's energy through that thing called "interest".
This is what has happened to America. America is a title; but behind that title lies the notion that "we Americans are exceptional", behind which is concealed, Satan's mystery religion of philosophy mixed with the obfuscation of knowledge.
You are being told, "you are exceptional" as a metaphor to mask the real meaning, which is that you and your children are about as deeply involved in Satan's World Government as you can possibly get!
Face it, Satan is deceit, and the employment of a term "exceptionalism" is used to mask your children being employed in the establishing up a militaristic Babylonian International regime, all under the guise of some massive noble effort.
Boy, you talk about having the wool pulled over your eyes!
Enter post WWI Germany, where tons of these Babylonians had landed, and had set up their Babylonian system of "International Bullion Brokers", aka gold merchants, aka Babylonian banksters.
This is why you have the prince of the International Bullion Brokers, Mayer Amschel Rothschild stating, "Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its law", coming out of Germany, as well as for the Jewish bullion maniupulating elite Marcus Goldman, Samuel Sachs, Abraham Kuhn, Solomon Loeb, of USA fame. Why it was Kuhn Loeb's financial wizards which set up the structure for the United States Federal Reserve Central Bank, and it is not Goldman Sachs henchmen which run this government. Why do you think everytime you hear of a banking scandal that it is tied to a Jew. The recent 2008-09 International Stimulus bailout was merely a transfer of healthy banking ledgers to international central banks, and the placing of the USA into greater debt to these international parasites.
Although Adolph Hitler was an antichrist as well, for the Father never uses His children in a battle where untold millions are going to be slaughetered, there was an in-depth intelligence in Nazi Germany that the International Bullion Brokers did not want the men of earth to see.
Mayer Amschel Bauer, the real name of the Rothschild patriarch, financed both Napoleon and Lord Wellington at Waterloo.
The American Revolution was financed by another Jew, Haym Solomon. Yeah, I bet you did not read this in one of your American history textbooks.
It was the basis of these parasites upon mankind, being in New York City that led to the establishing of the Freemasons first in New York City.
The United States of Babylon's Government was first established in, you guessed it, in "NEW YORK CITY". But there was no real room in New York City to found a government there, so it was moved to Philadephia, and from Philadephia to a swamp in Maryland: hint, this is why the Washington Monument had to be moved several hundred feet to the east of its intended position, because it could not be constructed where first proposed due to the ground not being firm enough to support it.
So much for the wisdom of the Freemasons!
The Freemasons are your modern Illuminati. They originated, as you guessed it, in Germany in 1776.
The USA is a corporatist founding, designed to be began, you guessed it, in 1776, as well.
At first there were not many Jews in the USA, but all that there were, were scattered up and down the eastern seaboard in the colonial port cities of New Amsterdam aka NYC, Newport RI, Philadephia PA, Richmond VA, Washington DC, Charlestowne SC, and Savannah GA. All of these cities are famous, not only because they were the places where the Babylonain Jews first built their synagogues in the US of Babylon, but also for their histories which are rich in the traditions of slavery.
With the advent of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, and cooperation of the good "Christian" Brown Family of Newport, Rhode Island, founders of Brown University, who were responsible for bringing into this land over 1,000,000 black slaves, alone.
So, you want to know where the Christians and Jews got their money in this land?
Look no further than the Eastern Seaboard, Kabbalah, and slavery! And later, you can look at the rape and plunder of the American Plains Indians.
WHAT DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HITLER HAVE IN COMMON?
"Gottfried Feder and other German theorists had for their part based their theories on studies of the American Constitution, and more importantly, that President Abraham Lincoln had financed the Northern effort in the American Civil War by creating debt free "Greenbacks", bypassing New York banking houses and interest debt completely." [Babylon's Banksters]
WWI had been used to crush the nation of Germany financially and bring it to its knees before the Bavarian Banking Houses; and although German dictator Adolph Hitler, who was placed into power by the International Bullion Brokers, was supposed to be their guy, Hitler instantly sought to break away from the International Bullion Brokers, and set up interest free and debt free currency in Germany.
All hell broke loose, and the International Banksters had to put their spin on Hitler being out of control, and the Zionist's plan for a eugenics based Israel, was the best way to poison the minds of the ignorant. This is why you were told that Hitler exterminated 6 million Jews. This is ludicrous. Hitler's regime, already suffering under the weight of international boycotts, had several hundreds of thousands of weak and feeble Jews that the Zionist Congress did not want in Israel, and with food shortages and rationing, Hitler was not about to starve the German people to feed what amounted to, as his enemies. This is why the photographs of emaciated starving Jews is circulated. You cannot be told the truth about what happened in WWII.
In summation, Germany was finally destroyed, and the corporate takeover was complete. Germany's V-2 Rocket program became the basis of both the US and Soviet space programs, and their eugenics programs became the basis for your Planned Parenthood, and Bill Gate's current plan to sterilize all of the poor populations of the World.
Germany was in many ways like the USA is today, only 60 years earlier.
Germany and Hitler was used of the International Banksters to crank up WWII, which has led to the establishing of the World's 163 Central Bank Banking System under the Mother of all banks, the Bank of International Settlements, in Basel Switzerland.
For those of you who think that you are free, and enjoy liberty, everywhere around you are nothing but corporations, or "harannu" as they were called in Sumer..
So, Donna, you and ETcallhome, and the remainder who think that "corporatistm" is the greatest thing since popcorn, and that it is associated with Jesus Christ, you keep on thinking this, for the time being..
"For God has put it into their hearts to agree and give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled!"
Any church that is formed in corporatism is simply antiChrist! All churches in the USA which are created by corporation(s) are fictions, and they are imposters, aka antiChrists, "instead of" to the real body of Christ!
The Purpose of Corporatist Christianity, Judaism, and/or Corporatism, aka AntiChrist in general, is to REFLECT the TRUE BODY of Christ!
Posted : 23 Nov, 2011 11:16 AM
The Purpose of Corporatist Christianity, Judaism, and/or Corporatism, aka AntiChrist in general, is to REFLECT the TRUE BODY of Christ!
AntiChrist does not mean "against Christ", as we are led to believe through philosophical argument, it is the very arguement of philosophy itself, which is AntiChrist.
*** Antichrist ~ antichristos ~ G500 ~
1) the adversary of the Messiah
base word ~ anti~ G473 ~
1) over against, opposite to, before
2) for, instead of, in place of (something)
a) instead of
b) for
c) for that, because
d) wherefore, for this cause
base word ~ Christos~
Christ = "anointed"
1) Christ is the Messiah, the Son of God
2) anointed
*** I dont "SEE" anything about philosophy here...
This is how the World has been warped from the beginning!
*** I believe this shows how "people" get warped in their own Interpretation of Scripture mixed with their own Opinions...
Yes, Christianity is AntiChrist, as is Judaism, as is Islam, and every other ISM, every other religion, which relies upon philosophical argument, which is the wisdom of Satan, to guide it.
*** The 1st ISM to infiltrate the Church was the Gnostics/ism and Christianity is AntiChrist ???...WOW !!!...Good LORD man...I understand your Dislike of all corporatisim...we all dont like the events happening in the world today...we aint gota be worrying about that stuff...
Do you realize you have just Blasphemed Christ Jesus by calling Him...His Church...the Body of Christ a AntiChrist...Ima be praying for you and I must admit...I agree with SrJames...AWM stands for A Wacko Man...Lord have Mercy...:prayingf:...
This post by you Does NOT not "Reflect" the True Body of Christ Jesus...xo
The Purpose of Corporatist Christianity, Judaism, and/or Corporatism, aka AntiChrist in general, is to REFLECT the TRUE BODY of Christ!
Posted : 23 Nov, 2011 12:46 PM
Civil Government in the Name of Christ
On October 28, in the year of our Lord 312, Constantine, reportedly having seen a vision of a cross emblazoned with the words, In hoc signo vinces, �In this sign Conquer,� defeated Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, on the Tiber River a few miles from Rome. He then became ruler of Rome and the western part of the Empire. A dozen years later, he defeated his last enemy and became emperor of the whole Roman Empire. Constantine was a powerful force of protection for Christians from the outset of his reign, recognizing Christianity as a legally permissible religion in 313, in what came to be known as the Edict of Milan, and proclaiming his adherence to Christianity and his aim that Christianity should become the religion of the Empire once he became sole emperor of Rome in 324. As was customary in those days, years passed from his confession of the gospel until his baptism; he was baptized on Pentecost Sunday, May 22, 337, shortly before his death.
The western part of the Roman Empire collapsed in 476, but the Empire itself continued as a Christian empire until the city of Constantinople fell to the armies of Islam on May 30, 1453, and the Ottoman Turks slew Constantine XI. The center of power for Byzantine civilization then passed on to Moscow, where the Tsars ruled in the name of Christ until Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917. That same year the Bolsheviks seized the Battleship Aurora on November 7, and the Anti-Christ, Vladimir Illyich Lenin, was enthroned as god in St. Petersburg.
The supreme authority in the Byzantine world was always the civil government, and the church functioned under the ruler with rather limited autonomy. But the situation in the West was markedly different from that in the East. In the West, once Rome fell, the Empire was plunged into the Dark Ages. In the place of a Christian empire, the various ethnic groups splintered under the pressure of wave after wave of barbarians with no unifying military force or law. It was within this vacuum, that one of the five Patriarchs of the Church, (originally the bishops of Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, Alexandria and Constantinople) the Bishop of Rome, rose to civil power, taking one of the ancient titles of the Roman emperors, Pontifex Maximus. As Europe moved through the Middle Ages, the Papacy came to function somewhat analogously to our modern United Nations. While the Pope�s power was �spiritual� rather than �temporal,� he had enormous power over the leaders of the various nation-states, having the authority to excommunicate rulers and place their realms under interdict, thereby denying their people of most of the sacraments and Christian burial to all within their borders. It was the Pope who crowned Charles I, the King of the Franks, as the new Roman Emperor on Christmas Day 800. Thus by the hand of the Pope, Charlemagne became the first person to bear the title emperor in the West since the fifth century. And it was the Pope, who forced the emperor, Henry IV, to stand in the snow for three days at Canossa, in 1077, lest his excommunication result in his overthrow.
Whatever one may think of Constantine, outside of isolated situations such as Armenia, Christian civil government began with him, and it has continued on until today. Nations cannot be born again, but civil governments can attempt to rule justly in the fear of God. In my opinion, several things are involved in a nation being Christian. Whether formally or informally, by consensus, a Christian nation has respect for the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and seeks to protect his Church. Furthermore, a Christian nation bases its own laws on God�s moral Law, tempering justice with mercy. None of these things was ever done perfectly in history, not under the Byzantines in the East and not under the Holy Roman Empire in the West. Even Cromwell�s England and Puritan New England failed, if we judge them by the absolute standard of God�s Word. But is not the history of the one, truly God-ordained theocracy in the world, ancient Israel, one sordid saga of sin?
I do not believe that the New Testament lays out a political agenda for Christians, but we are called to be salt and light, according to each one�s place and calling, bringing the influence of the gospel into every sphere of life. If we are in a position of authority over others, then we must rule justly, in the fear of God. If, instead of living in a modern Republic with Democratic ideals, a Christian believer should find himself having autocratic power over others, does he not do what the Christian head of a family does? He does not force people to become Christians, but he does enforce Christian standards of conduct. But all of this is an outgrowth of the gospel�the conversion of individuals is the great task of the Church. What follows is the fruit of many individuals embracing Jesus as Lord and Savior. It is one reason why I think that so-called nation building is doomed to fail�without a gospel foundation that embraces such things as the priesthood of the believer, modern, democratic structures cannot form.
Church and State
The Church and the state are two different institutions. Two passages stand out in the New Testament: Romans 13:1-7 and 1 Peter 2:13-16.
The Apostle Peter gives us the basic function of civil government: �to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good� (1 Peter 2:14). Government should endeavor to create a climate where good living is rewarded. Among other things, it provides protection against foreign invasion and domestic evils such as theft, libel and murder, so that its citizens can work and enjoy the fruit of their labors. The fundamental way that government does this is by coercion; it is �to punish those who do evil.� Government�s task is not to change people�s hearts and make them better; it is to make hypocrisy more successful. People�s obedience is prompted fundamentally out of fear of punishment. Government represses the outward manifestation of sin by bringing justice to bear against evildoers.
Saint Paul affirms the same truths about government and teaches that the civil ruler is �God�s servant� to whom God has given authority to use deadly force: �But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God�s wrath on the wrongdoer� (Romans 13:4). Paul could not be broader in his statement about governments�from Caligula�s and Nero�s Rome to Stalin�s Russia and Mao�s China, all civil governments exist under divine authority: �For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God� (Romans 13:1).
The nature and authority of the Church could not be more different. The �coercion� that Church uses is that of fellowship and worship: singing, prayer, the Word and Sacraments; the only �punishment� it metes out is exclusion from the means of grace (1 Corinthians 5). Furthermore, unlike the state, the Church seeks to remove hypocrisy, for it does not aim simply at external conformity but at inner conformity, obedience from the heart. Its goal is that people do what is right as an expression of gratitude for God�s magnanimous grace in Jesus Christ, not looking for an immediate, temporal reward: �Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free� (Ephesians 6:5-8).
Believers� obedience is categorically different from that which the world expects of its own. While Christians must never disobey God and his Word (Acts 5:29, �We must obey God rather than men.� Cf. Daniel 1:8, 19, 20; 3:12, 16-18; 6:10), they are to obey even unfair authorities as an expression of love for God and trust in his promises: �Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly� (1 Peter 2:18, 19).
Of the two ancient models of Christian government, the Byzantine protects the Church from hypocrisy far better than that of the Roman, because an autocratic civil ruler can enforce outward conformity to God�s standards without the Church necessarily becoming involved in the process. Whereas, the price that the Bishop of Rome paid for resolving differences among the European royal houses was to conform the Western Church more and more to the image of the Scarlet Woman of Revelation 17. Because of the fundamental differences between Church and State, movements such as the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition are doomed to fail, especially in an American context.
The United States
The United States is not a simple democracy, but a democratic, constitutionally limited, republic. Its government was not designed to rule based on the constantly changing desires of a simple majority of its citizens, but on its laws that reflect its written constitution. This constitution is very difficult to amend, and this was done on purpose to protect the people from the �dictatorship� of popular opinion. However, the American system did not spring fully developed into the world but was born out of the matrix of the Protestant Reformation. Democratic rather than totalitarian principles underlie the American republic, because Protestantism leveled all people before the sovereignty of God and his gracious salvation, a salvation that was not mediated through priestly hierarchy but directly through the one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5).
Protestantism put the Bible in the hands of the simple plowman and told him that the Spirit of God would give him the ability to understand it. It pressed him to examine the teachings of the Church by the standards of the Word of God; the �layman� must think for himself and seek God for himself, because under Christ every believer is a prophet, priest and king. The descending hierarchy of various people�s importance was destroyed at the foot of the cross. Without removing the temporal authority of civil rulers or the spiritual authority of church leaders, Protestantism, in affirming the prophetic, priestly and kingly office of every believer, taught that the individual Christian was responsible to examine even the decrees of kings by the Word of God and that all people were to be treated with respect and dignity, for: �there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus� (Galatians 3:28).
Thus Protestantism inevitably gave birth to profound social and political change, and modern constitutionally limited governments developed, particularly in those nations most influenced by Calvin. At the time of the War for Independence, it is estimated that roughly two thirds of the American population were at least moderately Calvinistic.
Early in the nineteenth century significantly different theologies came to influence American thinking. Led by New England Unitarianism, on the one hand, and on the other, an anti-Calvinistic Evangelicalism from such men as Charles Grandison Finney, the American Church moved away from its Calvinistic moorings. By the end of that century, with the Church�s immersion in the war over slavery and then in the Prohibition movement, coupled with the massive influx of Roman Catholic immigrants, the religious climate of America had radically changed.
During this time, the Protestant churches began to undergo other, more radical changes. Beginning with the latter part of the nineteenth century, modernism came increasingly to dominate the leadership of the mainline Protestant churches. Rejecting the infallibility of the Bible, in time many of Protestantism�s leading theologians came to reject most of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity: miracles, Jesus� virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection and triumphant, literal return. By the mid-twentieth century, American Protestantism began to jettison the basic moral absolutes of Scripture as well.
Into this collapsing Protestant civilization, new waves of immigrants came with even more diverse backgrounds, and religious pluralism began in earnest. Jews, fresh with the memories of Tsarist pogroms, sought to limit the civic expression of Christian faith. What began as a relatively mild movement became a full-fledged crusade in the wake of the holocaust of Hitler�s Third Reich.
Even in a constitutionally limited republic, significant change can come. The end of the War Between the States brought significant changes not only to American society, but to its Constitution as well. The legislative agenda of the Radical Republicans turned the Constitution into a document that was no longer completely consistent with itself, and Reconstruction (1865-1877) radically altered the political structures, establishing a stronger central government over the formerly sovereign states: before that war people said, �The United States are . . .� After the war they said, �The United States is . . .�
Under the influence of President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), the United States moved into entanglement with European society, politics, economics and eventually war. In the wake of the Great Depression of the nineteen thirties, the underlying, limited role of government was significantly altered under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945). Post World War II America saw a return to some of the policies of Reconstruction, with the Federal government overturning the policies of discrimination against African Americans, policies that were secured under states� rights, and the Federal government began to replace the church as the provider of charity and securer of moral change. Community public schools that until the nineteen sixties had received no Federal funding and that, by and large, were de facto, Protestant schools, were slowly taken over by Federal mandate: prayer and Bible reading were removed and control was taken from the hands of local school boards and placed in the hands of Federal judges. The momentum of the Civil Rights movement was subsequently commandeered in the seventies by the Women�s movement and gay rights groups.
America is where it is as a result of these historical processes. Any effort to turn back the clock on American government that ignores these processes is doomed to fail. The Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition sought to push government back to the more Protestant-influenced world of America�s past. But this cannot ultimately succeed without huge numbers of Americans becoming truly Christian. At best, these movements only slow the acceleration of the anti-Christian Juggernaut, but, sadly, they do this best when they sell their souls for a temporary mess of pottage, the illusion of political power.
The Reagan Presidency (1981-1989) was seen as a great victory by many Evangelicals, but the Reagan years exposed the hollowness of the conservative Protestant church with its lust for power and wealth and its closeted sexual perversions. The eighties gave us a behind the scenes look at the perversions of Jim Bakker, Marvin Gorman and Jimmy Swaggart as well as the political manipulations of Jerry Falwell�not to mention Pat Robertson, who having left the sphere of his expertise to run for President of the United States, came to look like a fool to a majority of Americans, and who later sold off a big chunk of his Christian Broadcasting Network to Rupert Murdock for untold millions of dollars�a far cry from the Lord Jesus, who, unlike foxes and birds, had nowhere to lay his head (Matthew 8:20).
The Church needs to do what it is anointed to do: proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit, baptizing all nations in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that the Lord Jesus has commanded us. It needs to do this through broken-hearted, earnest prayer and leave the results in the hands of a sovereign God.
The Purpose of Corporatist Christianity, Judaism, and/or Corporatism, aka AntiChrist in general, is to REFLECT the TRUE BODY of Christ!
Posted : 23 Nov, 2011 01:14 PM
Wow !!!...Donna...I love ya...truely an please dont take what ima gonna ask ya as an attack unto you...Have you no personal comment about AWM calling a Christian an Christianity an AntiChrist ???...xo
The Purpose of Corporatist Christianity, Judaism, and/or Corporatism, aka AntiChrist in general, is to REFLECT the TRUE BODY of Christ!
Posted : 23 Nov, 2011 01:19 PM
I do Jude, but my Momma taught me if i can't say anything nice not to say anything at all. He will stand in front of God almighty and answer for his words.
